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Garbled Fonts

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Ever since the last update, my text font has become garbled. i use ancestry.com all the time. suddenly all the text is messed up. what has happened and how can i fix it. remember, i am not a tech so explain in laymans terms please. i also notice in the search bar the text is in color. i need it all back to normal. i uninstalled firefox and went back to Edge..for one week...then uninstalled that and came back to Firefox. can someone please help? thank you

Ever since the last update, my text font has become garbled. i use ancestry.com all the time. suddenly all the text is messed up. what has happened and how can i fix it. remember, i am not a tech so explain in laymans terms please. i also notice in the search bar the text is in color. i need it all back to normal. i uninstalled firefox and went back to Edge..for one week...then uninstalled that and came back to Firefox. can someone please help? thank you

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Laura said

i also notice in the search bar the text is in color

Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link}

A small dialog should appear. Click Start In Safe Mode (not Refresh). Is the problem still there?

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Is this with all websites/pages, some, a few?


Type about:preferences#general<enter> in the address bar. Across from fonts and colors, press the Advanced button. On the bottom, turn on Allow Web Sites To Choose Their Own.

Make sure you haven't enabled a High Contrast theme in the OS settings.

Also see: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/search/advanced?q=fonts&language=en-US&product=firefox&sortby_documents=relevance&a=1&w=1

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Laura said

i also notice in the search bar the text is in color

Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link}

A small dialog should appear. Click Start In Safe Mode (not Refresh). Is the problem still there?